Definition of "countermarched" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of countermarch. (verb)

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• "Gunpowder complicated things further, so from the sixteenth century on, troops slapped wood and iron and marched and countermarched to the choreography of drillmasters."
• "The company quickly saddled up and countermarched in the direction of the Indians."
• "The Indians now fell back to a high ridge, on the crest of which they marched and countermarched, threatening to charge down its face."